Blogging
This is something of a token post. I’ve spent the day “facilitating” a workshop for all our bloggers within RBI, and I’m shattered. Never has my respect for those of you who do this sort of thing for a living been higher: it’s absolutely exhausting. However, it
Journalism
To be fair, a trade press story popped up on the *Press Gazette *Twitter feed [http://twitter.com/pressgazette] this morning > Centaur in 300k directory buy-up [http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=37789&c=1]: Centaur has acquired the Creative Handbook from Reed
akismet
I’ve spent a chunk of the afternoon today dealing with various behind the scenes issues on my blogs. The most obvious to you will be that, at long last, the headlines of each post on this blog are now links that take you through to that entry’s own
awards
The Computer Weekly team picked up a PPA award [http://www.magazines2007.com/cgi-bin/wms.pl/926] last night for the work they’ve done exposing the appalling state of the NHS IT systems. Even better, the journalist responsible for much of the work, Tony Collins [http://www.computerweekly.com/
andrew rogers
My colleague, the inestimable Andrew Rogers [http://westendwhingers.wordpress.com/], got liveblogged at the PPA Conference yesterday [http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/organgrinder/2007/05/the_ppa_conference_business_as.html#more] : > Andrew Rogers, head of user content development at Reed Business Information, said that in one way, magazine
Blogging
Here’s our unusual blog launch of the day: [http://www.onemanandhisblog.com/pics/johnsweirdworld.bmp] John’s Weird World is a green living blog for social workers [http://www.communitycare.co.uk/blogs/green-living/], written by former *Newsnight *helper [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/4736228.
Blogging
We just hit a rather pleasing milestone with blogging here at RBI-UK: I’m looking forward to indoctrinating the next 100 journalists into the ways of conversational media…
blogher
While at Blogher, I was accosted by a mad Scotsman [http://www.ewanspence.com] in a kilt. This was no an entirely unfamiliar experience for me. I grew up in Scotland, and have even been known to wear a kilt myself once in a while (but not for a long
Blogging
One of my collegues, who works on our vertical serach engine Zibb [http://www.zibb.com/], is moaning that I didn’t link to his blog in my last post. So, here it is: Anthony’s Blog [http://denny.vox.com/] Hey, maybe he should have e-mailed me about a
Blogging
Last Friday was not a good day to be milling around at a conference with a badge saying “Reed Business” on it. Why? Because people kept asking me about this hard hitting post by Seth Godin [http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2007/03/spammers_and_pr.html]. I’d
Journalists
So, we have a little video-making contest on the go here at RBI. The Flight Group [http://www.flightglobal.com/Home/Default.aspx] have put up this little effort of two of its journalists flying a 737-NG flight simualtor, which is interesting viewing: And the truly masochistic amongst you might
Blogging
One of our websites is running a competition to name their next blog: Take part in our online poll to name our latest CatererSearch blog (The Caterer Blog) [http://www.caterersearch.com/blogs/catering-news-blog/2007/02/take-part-in-our-online-poll-t.html] Cool.
